The Virtual Picture Album -- Korea

The grid below is an annotated index to part of the Virtual Picture Album compiled and distributed by the Less Commonly Taught Languages Project at the University of Minnesota. The pictures in this section of the VPA are of people, places, and objects in the Republic of Korea. Each of the pictures is represented by a thumbnail-sized image in the grid, and is accompanied by:

• a list of vocabulary items corresponding to elements in the picture
• some suggested lesson topics and grammar points for which the picture might be useful. (These categories are summarized at the bottom of the page.)

There are also suggestions for ways to use certain pairs or groups of pictures.

Due to the number of pictures in this section, the VPA index for Korea is divided into five parts.

 

Part 1	Daily Life: Shopping, Food, Transportation
Part 2	Korea Today: People, Education, Recreation
Part 3	Korea Yesterday: Culture, Tradition
Part 4	Historic Remains
Part 5	Geography: Landscape, Scenery

To view or download a full-sized picture from the VPA, click on its thumbnail representation below.

Part 2. Korea Today: People, Education, Recreation

Photo (Thumbnail)	Topics	Vocabulary Items	Grammar Points
	Seoul city view	Capital city, population, density, crowded, buildings, apartments, mountains, mountain, geography	Descriptions, present tense
	Han'gang, apartment complex in Seoul	Apartment, river, construction, barbed wire	Description, ~e issoyo structure
	Morning exercise in Namsan	Exercise, morning walk, hiking, gazebo, people, early risers, diligent, stretching, physical exercise, to walk	Describing daily activities, present tense, motion verbs
	Underground market in Tongdaemun	Underground market, shopping, passengers, road signs, news stand, newspaper, magazine, cars, bill board, shopping	Asking/giving directions, ~juseyo structure
	Subway station	Signs, ads, subway transfer, way out, exits, tracks, busy people	Asking for directions, subway transfers, polite expressions
	Morning commuter, rush hour in downtown	Subway, Youido, high buildings, passengers, line, commuter	Comparisons, asking for directions (subway lines and transfer), polite expressions, locatives
	Public phone, making a phone call	Phone booth, public phone, coin, meeting, to schedule, appointment	time+~e structure
	Making an international phone call, using a phone card, reading instructions	Telephone card, credit card, an international phone call, country code, area code, phone number	Descriptions, describing a procedure (kurigo, ku taume etc.)
	Harbor city	Boat, harbor, fishermen, to fish, ocean	Descriptions, locatives
	Fishing nets, stores, names of fishing gear	To buy/sell fishing gear, store signs	Descriptions, measurement/size comparisons
	Inshore fishery, seafood/fish store	Seafood/fish store, dried fishes, dried seaweed, wild greens, squid, dried pollack, mushroom	Descriptions
	Fish Market	To bargain, prices, fresh, seafood, to buy/sell, to dry	Descriptions, asking prices, counter for fish (mari)
	Public education system	Public education, middle school, school building, students, school gate, classrooms	Description
	Elementary school in a city, school playground	Playground, elementary school, apartment, students	Describing school life
	Elementary school, going to school in the morning	Elementary school students, children, coming to school, school bags, friends, to walk	[destination]-e + directional verbs
	Class activity, elementary school classroom	Classroom, students, desks, chairs, textbooks, blackboard, T'aegukki, to display, to sit on	Descriptions, locatives, comparisons
	Elementary school class	Classroom, students, desks, chairs, textbooks, to display, to sit on, to study	Descriptions, present tense, locative, comparisons
	Kindergarten, field trip	Kindergarteners, field trip, Korean folk village, teacher, traditional roof (kiwa), walls, uniforms, walking in line	Descriptions, present tense, locative, motion verbs
	Kindergarten students	Kindergarten students, uniforms, backpack, gate	Descriptions
	Middle school students' field trip	School, school uniforms, female/male students, trees, folk village, field trip	Descriptions
	High school students' filed trip	High school students, field trip, group photo, Women's high school, students, to take a picture, flield trip, museum	Descriptions, comparisons
	University	University, main gates, symbols, national (public) university	Descriptions
	University campus	Campus buildings, signs, to go to class, banner	Descriptions
	Private English language education, English language institutes	Hagwon (private institute), sings, buildings, English language training, English tests	Comparisons, descriptions
	English education, private English institutes	Hagwon (private institute), sings, buildings, English education, English tests	Descriptions
	Taking a walk at a park	To take a walk, park, to go, mountain, trees, dating, couples	Descriptions, motion verbs, comparisons
	Weekend life on a park	People, pond, to take a walk, to date, to meet friends, couples, dating	Motion verbs, descriptions
	The elderly	Elderly, senior, to rest, to sit, to chat	Descriptions, personal pronouns, honorifics
	Community activities	Community gathering, activities, to clean, people, man, woman, elderly, senior, neighbor, families, to fly a kite, apartment	Descriptions, plural marker for people, personal pronouns
	Weekend park clean-up, community activity	Bench, boy, volunteer, elderly, to sit, to pick up, to bend, garbage, grass, banner	Descriptions, present tense, comparisons, motion verbs
	Hobbies, sports, playing baseball	To play baseball, weekend games, hobby, playground, tress, grass, players, friends	Descriptions, past tense, motion verbs, names of sports
	Entertainment, nightclub	To dance, to go to a dance club, to meet friends, entrance, interesting	Descriptions, asking location, locatives, talking about weekend activities, past tense
	Entertainment, nightclub	To dance, nightclub, DJ, dance floor, friends	Descriptions, comparisons, present tense
	Entertainment, nightclub	Membership, nightclub, entertainment, sculpture	Descriptions, comparisons, present tense, making requests, asking for information, locative particles
	Noraebang, singing	Singing, Noraebang, children, monitors, microphones, songs, titles	Descriptions, comparisons
	Noraebang, singing	Singing, children, microphone, song, boy, girl	Descriptions, comparisons, present tense
	Internet cafe	Internet cafe ("PC room"), internet, communication, pc games, e-mail	Descriptions, comparisons
	Internet cafe	Computer, game, to send e-mails, chairs, adolescents	Descriptions, comparisons, present tense, locatives, personal pronouns
	Video games, entertainment	To play games, to meet friends, to watch, scores, coins, to compete	Descriptions, comparisons
	Video games, entertainment	To play games, to meet friends, to watch, scores, coins, to compete	Descriptions, comparisons, present tense, explain the procedure

1. Shopping: department store
2. Shopping: traditional market
3. Foods on street
4. Korean restaurants and food
5. Public transportation: Airport
6. Public trasportation: Subway
7. Public trasportation: Railroad station
8. Seoul
9. Pusan, Inchon
10. Schools and students
11. Entertainment: Noraebang, Internet cafe, Nightclub
12. Korean traditional constructions
13. Natural scenery in Korea
14. Traditional lives of Korea
15. Folk games
16. Traditional arts

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